Formatting: Enter and Tab key behavior Answer: You can customize the default behavior of the Enter and/or Tab key for a given element style under Format > Element Styles > Modify Element Style.
For instance, if ...
Formatting: Is there a ruler like Word or Final Draft? Answer: To show the ruler for a single line, you can use Format > Adjust Line Length. The ruler will automatically show for any element that has ...
Formatting: Why is my script a different length than in Final Draft? Answer: When importing a Final Draft screenplay into Fade In, the resulting page count may be different. There are several reasons this can happen:
Margins and indents - ...
General: Unicode/international language PDF output Answer: The short answer
If you are writing in Unicode (i.e., a non-English language, using emojis, etc.) and experience problems with text rendering correctly when attempting to ...
General: Can Fade In open Final Draft screenplays? Answer: Fade In Professional Screenwriting Software can open a wide range of documents format, including Final Draft.
Final Draft version 8 (.fdx) documents can be imported and ...
Formatting: Dual dialogue Answer: To format dialogue by two characters as dual dialogue (i.e., simultaneously spoken), simply select/place the insertion point on the first character element and select Format > ...
Formatting: Inserting a page break Answer: You can insert a page break by placing the insertion point on an element and selecting Format > Page Break Before. To remove page break ...
General: Bad formatting/punctuation alignment on Windows Answer: If you are seeing misalignment of formatting (such as bold and italics) or of punctuation (such as the parentheses before and after a Parenthetical element), ...
Formatting: How to cheat or adjust page and line length Answer: There are a number of things that you can do to adjust (or cheat) page and line length.
1. Use Format > Adjust Line Length and either ...
Formatting: Creating a custom template Answer: It's easy to create a custom template with your own setup, including element styles, customized autocompletions for Scene Intros, Scene Times, Character Extensions, etc., and ...
General: Windows Alt+NumPad combinations aren't working Answer: On Windows, you can use Alt+NumPad combinations to type accented or other Unicode characters.
If for this seems to not be working — and particularly if it's ...
Formatting: How to override "(cont'd)" after a Character element Answer: To remove all occurrences of "(cont'd)" to indicate the same character speaking again, you can turn it off under Document > More and Continued.
To override only a single occurrence, ...
General: How to make scene headings bold Answer: Go to Format > Element Styles > Modify Element Style, select Scene Heading, then Font and make sure the Bold checkbox is checked.
If you want to make this is ...